By David Konstan
ISBN-10: 0521454026
ISBN-13: 9780521454025
This ebook is a heritage of friendship in Greece and Rome, from the warrior society of the Homeric epics to the time of the Christian Roman Empire. It demonstrates how old friendship resembles smooth conceptions, and the way it evolves in numerous social contexts. The ebook sheds new mild on such questions as friendship and democracy, the significance of buddies in executive and in philosophical groups, women's friendships, and the transformation of friendship below the impact of Christian principles of brotherhood.
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But scholars have minimized the role of voluntary affective bonds in the epics, and in the absence of external evidence only a close inspection of usage in the texts can reveal the clear conception of affection and personal friendship to which they testify. " To take the best-known instance: when Diomedes and the Lycian hero Glaucus, who is allied with Troy, are about to engage in single combat, they discover that their grandfathers were connected by ties of hospitality. Diomedes plants his spear in the ground, and speaks cordially to his antagonist (//.
270-1), but such courtesy is not obligatory. 25 Some scholars have supposed that the continuity of strangerfriendships is proof that they were based on a rigorous and binding code. Thus, Arthur Adkins (1972: 18) writes: "these relationships [involving philotes, a poetic form of philia] have a very objective character. " Nor, he adds, does philotes "depend on the feelings or inclinations of those who inherit it, since Glaucus and Diomedes have never seen one 24 25 At Od. 239-40, it is supposed that a xeinos has given Odysseus a gift, since he was philos to m a n y .
G. Od. 74). 160; cf. 162, 166). 26-9). 36), since his house is rich enough to entertain guests. Homer is indulging in a bit of comedy here: the audience will recall 19 20 For the contrast, cf. Pindar, Isth. 51; Theognidea 793-4; Carm. Epigr. 17; [Anacreon] Anth. Pal. V. 3; Scheid-Tissinier 1990 wrongly discerns this distinction already in the Odyssey. g. H . Kakridis 1963: 86; Achaeans wrongly described as xenoi: Belmont 1962: 35; Takabatake 1988: 450 misleadingly states that xenos implies non-Greek; use ofekhthros: Slatkin 1988: 130-1.
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